In the absence of official communication, benchmarks, certifications and usage surveys are, in many cases, excellent sources of information on what’s to come. And it is that, as much as the producers try to keep it a mystery, there are some steps that cannot be carried out with as much privacy as they would like, for the comfort of those of us reporting on these matters. Whether it’s a new Mac, a graphics card that hasn’t hit the market yet, or a processor that will take a few months to see the light of day, being able to keep up with the times is always interesting.
There are therefore people capable of constantly reviewing the websites on which these “apparitions” are usually documented, and their perseverance must, on many occasions, be able to anticipate the communication plans of technology companies. Not surprisingly, along with internal leaks, this is the other major source of information from which progress is fueled. In our news you will have already been able to verify it on many occasions, and it will certainly continue to be so in the future.
Today we have a new case, with the appearance of two unreleased Macs featured in Steam’s hardware survey. You can see them in this list, in which they occupy the penultimate and penultimate position, just above VirtualMac2,1, a virtualization platform that allows you to run macOS, the operating system of Apple computers. They are the Mac14.6 and Mac15.4 models.
We can quickly deduce that these are prototypes of Apple computers that will be released soon, in 2023, and that among the battery of tests they are subjected to is running some of the titles available on Steam. Apple has long wanted to improve its position in terms of gaming, so this type of test fits perfectly with what we can understand is happening in the Apple Park laboratories.
Regarding those two Macs in particular, some theories suggest that we could be dealing with a new Mac Mini or a new Mac Studio but, without categorically denying it, the number that accompanies its name seems to be a clear allusion to the size, in inches, of its screen, so we are more likely to be faced with two new MacBooks, which may be released between March and April next year, perhaps the 15-inch MacBook Air we talked about a few days ago? Now, I repeat the usual, and we are talking about Apple, so anything is possible. In this regard, it is a pity that these cards do not provide further information, which would allow us to try to establish which MacBook family they belong to.
